The paper proposes a guide to understand the idea of democracy that underlies the Inter-American Human Rights System. Based on the notion of polyarchy from Robert Dahl it highlights the principles of participation and opposition. Both reveal the egalitarian and liberal ascendancy of democracy that should orient the interpretive activity of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, independently it refers to cases related with political rights. The main purpose is to make visible the inescapable public-political role of the courts. This (...) implies reviewing the quality of their reasons, the correctness of their justification procedures, and the nature of its authority. Due to the nature of the judicial function, the idea of democracy is revisited together with the human right of access to justice. (shrink)

This essay analyzes the notion of the public-politic on HannahArendt and, basically, the kind of rationality it implies. The principal problemto face is that a continuity line between the initial intuitions and proposals ofArendt about the politic, principally articulated around the ideas of actiona..

Este artículo analiza la filosofía política de Jürgen Habermas, a partir del ideal kantiano del uso público de la razón. Se arguye que dicho ideal es el hilo conductor entre sus trabajos iniciales relativos a la acción comunicativa, la esfera pública moderna y sus más recientes aportaciones sobre la..